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Open for Business - Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Paperback)
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Open for Business - Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (Paperback)
Series: American and Comparative Environmental Policy
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A detailed analysis of the policy effects of conservatives'
decades-long effort to dismantle the federal regulatory framework
for environmental protection. Since the 1970s, conservative
activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal
government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental
regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline
to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in need
of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted
creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been
the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith
Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives'
prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework
for environmental protection. Examining conservatives' influence
from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a
set of increasingly sophisticated tactics-including the depiction
of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on
right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of
sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally
friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She
argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp
any of the nation's environmental statutes, they have influenced
the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we
face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and
altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and
their solutions. Layzer's analysis sheds light not only on the
politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on
the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development
of policy.
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Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American and Comparative Environmental Policy |
Release date: |
2014 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
Judith A. Layzer
(Professor)
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Dimensions: |
222 x 146 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
520 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-52602-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
The environment >
Applied ecology >
General
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LSN: |
0-262-52602-6 |
Barcode: |
9780262526029 |
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